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sorry that you've had to endure brutal treatment in Germany and was astonished to learn from your letter that those Würtembergers proofed [sic] so evil people. But I request you not to judge over the Germans generally, as from the Würtembergers particularly. In all countries there are good people as well as bad ones, are there not? Now let me tell you what I did, since I left you, I had to marche [sic] with my regiment to a great many of French towns and villages, always fetching prisoners from the front and bringing them into the camps. Then, when the revolution broke out in Germany, I went homewards in great foot marches (each 30-40 kilometers a day),